*About Ms. Morris
Ms. Morris teaches 7th grade Language Arts, Science, and Math.
Ms. Morris is a graduate of Rutgers University and received her Masters in Inclusive Education from Georgian Court University. She holds the following teaching certificates: Elementary Education, Teacher of Students with Disabilities, and Middle School English. She loves to travel and write in her spare time.
Ms. Morris loves teaching, especially reading and writing, and looks forward to using this blog to provide her students with educational online resources.
Cute blog. I look forward to the poetry posts.
Carolina Maine
September 25, 2008
This is an awesome site. I’m so glad you have joined us here at GMS!
Dawn
October 8, 2008
Hello Miss Morris,
I don’t know if you mailed me personally or if you actioned a bulk mailing asking for fedback on behalf of your students. Either way I have to say how touched I was by your endeavour and pleased for the children that you teach.
It located me in a special place where the fondest memories of my own childhood and those teachers who put in that little bit more than was expected of them live. Perhaps your children don’t fully appreciate it now but this is a great service you are doing on their behalf.
I remember how excited we were as kids when someone had a penpal in the US or Australia or somewhere else that seemed exotic and faraway to us. The internet has done remarkable things and I’m mindful of the fact that you are dealing with kids who don’t know a world without it and also how tangible it makes the fact of a global community.
I am sure that you will be one of those whom your pupils look back on with fondness and affection when they themselves mature and it is in no small part that they have an opportunity to grow and develop as more rounded individuals because of the work that a teacher such as yourself does.
Very best wishes,
Lee Baldwin.
Lee Baldwin
October 9, 2008
I love this blog! Have you seen how many visitors from different places we have!!!!!! AMAZING!!!!!
Hayley
Hayley M.
November 3, 2008
Hello, Melissa. I’ve done a bit of touring here, which is how I found your first name. Your site turned up on the Google Analytics list of sites that sent visitors my way. I’m the author of “The Fan Club” so you and your students know some pretty important things about the 14-year-old me. I never guessed when I wrote that story that readers would be connecting with it after close to 60 years. The continuing feedback has been deeply rewarding.
You’ve compiled a rich trove of resources for your students. I lingered in your memoir section because I now lead a one-day memoir workshop for women. I’m always looking for new texts to read aloud to my groups and think they’ll relate to the Jane Yolen piece–a fine example of writing from a child’s point of view.
All the best to you and your students,
Rona Maynard
Rona Maynard
April 8, 2012